Showing posts with label SF Ballet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SF Ballet. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

YAY! I posted again!


On the 3rd of July aaron took me to see Wicked! This was a on-time, late Birthday present. My mom and he went in together to get the tickets, but had to purchase them so far in advance that we had to see a showing in July! Oh well it was definitely worth it. The funniest thing was/is, that I have been "singing" Popular and Defying Gravity for about two years, and Aaron has hated every chorus of it...until he saw the musical on the 3rd! hahaha! those were his two favorite scenes! haha!

Before we went to the play...which Aaron said was not as good as Mama Mia, but was still good,I took him to this new bar that had just opened called Rickhouse, on Kearny St. in SF. It boasted of a huge selection of Scotch's....there were 5 PAGES of choices!!!!!! Aaron was, needless to say, in HEAVEN! Here are some great photos we took from the evening.- Enjoy
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Saturday, January 31, 2009

The Ballet...

Erin S. and I just got back from watching the SF Ballet's 1st Program of the season. It was a three piece ballet, each by a different choreographer and each with a very different feel. Our favorite of the three was called "diving into the lilacs". It was a more contemporary piece, set to classical sonata by Tchaikovsky. The movement was fluid and the extensions were amazing.
Being at the ballet is indescribable, the emotion it evokes and the motion that it puts to your feet. I felt like getting up and doing an arabesque as some parts.
The first performance was nice, fairly classical in nature, and upbeat at times. It really helped that I knew the music piece, written by non other than Beethoven. I guess all those A&E films are paying off! haha
The last one,was weird. The program read as follows "The structures of both score and ballet are based on the idea that different personality traits are associated with the body’s four humors—black bile, blood, phlegm, and yellow bile." All I could think of when I read this was, "what?!". I could see remnants of this, I guess...it was just a little weird though. Definitely evoked that 1940's ballet feel in which is was originally written for. Erin and I agreed on one thing here, we liked the classic black leo and pink tights. There is just something about that that says "Ballet" , not sure what it is though..... *wink wink* just kidding.
Anyway, we are very grateful to my boss who so gernerously gave us her tickets for the night. We had such a good time, and thank God the laughing woman wasn't back (right Jos?! hahah).
Now I have to do some work and go to bed...
Peace out!